Heinz Makes Its New Provider Play Catch Up… Karie Willyerd was in a pickle. The general manager, executive and leadership development, for H.J. Heinz in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had to present her succession suggestions to the CEO in January. She just signed an outsourcing agreement in December. Could the provider meet her inexorable deadline?
Courting Law Students… Stacy Moore, director of attorney employment for Baker Botts LLP, a major law firm in Dallas, Texas, must work closely with the nation’s law schools. In the old days, before the ASP solution, law schools sent a stack of resumes to Moore, who handles on campus recruiting and lateral hiring. Then she had to sort and resort the resumes according to differing criteria to ferret out who the employment committee wanted to interview.
EAttorney Raises The Recruitment Bar… Sam Kellett needed to find a business project to earn his Masters of Business Administration degree at the University of Georgia. He wandered across the Athens, Georgia campus to the law school, where he observed what seemed to him an archaic campus recruiting process.
EJobShop.com… Schmidt is president of eJobShop, a Java placement service based in Los Altos, California. He is a match maker, finding experienced Java programmers who will work as independent contractors for customers who need code. The world is his marketplace, since the contractors work remotely.
The Internet will be bigger than the world’s telephone networks by 2002. And email is the killer application on the Internet. As Frode Hegland sees it, there’s just one problem. Today you have to learn a lot about a computer to use it. Who cares about that? he asks.
The Internet has altered the way people look for jobs. Today a job seeker can visit a talent exchange or a job board, search for the perfect job, then submit a resume with the click of a mouse. The universal availability and ease of use of these tools by Net-savvy job seekers are creating a blizzard of email for companies looking for help.
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